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Re: OT: Assignment operator (Was: using same variable twice on same page) [message #171353 is a reply to message #171344] Thu, 30 December 2010 18:36 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jim Higgins is currently offline  Jim Higgins
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:35:10 +0100, August Karlstrom
<fusionfile(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 2010-12-30 05:47, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 12/29/2010 8:07 PM, August Karlstrom wrote:
>>> On 2010-12-29 11:42, Derek Turner wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:07:55 -0700, richard wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > <?php if ($year="1961")
>>>>
>>>> This simply sets $year to "1961" and will always return 'true'
>>>
>>> ...which is more or less a flaw in the language design copied from C.
>>
>> Not at all. == is a completely different operator than =. Just like ++
>> is not the same as +.
>
> The equal sign `=' has been used in mathematics since medieval times to
> denote equality. To use `==' for equality and `=' for something else
> (assignment) is not sensible.


All fine and dandy if you're programming in BASIC, but when
programming in PHP you'll either do it as PHP requires or you'll not
get the result you expect. Sensible or not that's the way it is. Your
choice.
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